Case down under adjourned

A Grimsby-born campaigner appealing a 21-month jail sentence for bursting into the Northern Territory's parliament in Australia has had his case adjourned.

Supreme Court Judge David Angel has put back the case of Gary Meyerhoff (29) at Darwin Magistrates' Court after Meyerhoff requested an electronic copy of the transcript from his original trial. In March 2003, Meyerhoff was found guilty of disrupting the parliament while it was in session.

Around half the Northern Territory's parliament gave evidence during the trial and Meyerhoff was sentenced to 21 months, to be suspended after five.

Meyerhoff attended Enfield Primary School, New Waltham, and lived in Marshchapel and New Waltham before moving to Australia aged nine.

The appeal will be heard on August 30.

Published in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph on June 18, 2004.